Quotes of Henri Frederick Amiel

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

- Henri Frederick Amiel

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“ In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk. ”

- Robert T. Kiyosaki

“ True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ”

- Erich Segal

“ Love isn't a feeling or emotion that changes timely, it's everlasting... ”

- Gandhi

“ If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ And during, I realized that the labels didn’t matter, because when two people feel that sort of pull toward each other, it just works, and the only label that mattered was that I was in love. Totally, fully, ecstatically. ”

- Bill Konigsberg

“ Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ”

- George Edward Woodberry

“ Most people never truly live because they never do what they truly love. ”

- Tanner Walling

“ I can only think about the past, but I can always design the future. ”

- Davin Ferrigon

“ Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. ”

- Joan Crawford

“ And out of Tristan's heart there grew a hazel tree, and out of Iseult's a honeysuckle, and they arched together and clung and intertwined so that they could never be separated anymore. ”

- Rosemary Sutcliff

“ I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. (Psalms 116:12 NIV) ”

- Anonymous

“ I only have so much willpower, Helen," he whispered. "And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I've ever seen, I'm going to have to ask you to get under the covers before I do something stupid. ”

- Josephine Angelini

“ To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. ”

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

“ We will either find a way, or make one. ”

- Hannibal

“ Sometimes the hardest one to see . . .is the one standing right before you. ”

- Lenora Porch

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome

“ Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. ”

- Ernest Shackleton

“ Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’ ”

- Tupac Shakur

“ Could you exist just for the art of existence? ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna. ”

- Patrick Rothfuss

“ True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the wellbeing of one's companion. ”

- Gordon B. Hinckley

“ If music be the food of love, play on. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ”

- Henry David Thoreau